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PC problems. Are these issues with OSX, too?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lastmboy" data-source="post: 1397844" data-attributes="member: 246992"><p>Thanks for taking the time to respond in detail. It was a great reply. Being a Windows programmer, I have lots of Windows programmer friends and co-workers. They all want to know why in the world I would want a Mac. I find it really hard to explain, because it's more of a general "feeling" than anything really specific. My sister has a MBP, so I thought I would sit down and just play with the thing a bit. Having never touched one before it was quite interesting. I discovered it to be a lot like my iPad, in that everything just made sense, responded quickly, and worked so smoothly. I hate the touchpad on any pc laptop and will never touch it. They're useless. However, I found the MPB touchpad worked so well I could see myself using it instead of a mouse. I then stopped in at the store and played with an iMac for a while. Same great feeling... only bigger. The only thing that bothered me was the tracking speed of the magic mouse. I set the speed to max, and it was still painfully slow. There are alternatives to that, though. Anyways, I couldn't pinpoint any one thing about it, but I just loved how the machine and OS worked. I've never had that happen with a pc. My "super pc" is very fast for the most part. It boots up very quickly and generally opens apps quickly, but it's so unpredictable (see some of my issues at the beginning of this thread).</p><p></p><p>I've been checking everything out in detail and can't find anything I would miss in switching, except for QuickBooks Pro and my scanner. I have a Canan DR-2580c high speed document scanner that I love. I throw everything in it, push the button on it, and then find all the PDFs sitting in a folder. However, Canon isn't much for making OSX device drivers. This should probably be in a different thread, but if I ran Parallels or VMware Fusion, can I leave a virtual instance running that would recognize the usb scanner when I push the button on the scanner, or am I stuck with re-booting through bootcamp? It will be a bit of a pain to re-boot every time I want to scan a document.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lastmboy, post: 1397844, member: 246992"] Thanks for taking the time to respond in detail. It was a great reply. Being a Windows programmer, I have lots of Windows programmer friends and co-workers. They all want to know why in the world I would want a Mac. I find it really hard to explain, because it's more of a general "feeling" than anything really specific. My sister has a MBP, so I thought I would sit down and just play with the thing a bit. Having never touched one before it was quite interesting. I discovered it to be a lot like my iPad, in that everything just made sense, responded quickly, and worked so smoothly. I hate the touchpad on any pc laptop and will never touch it. They're useless. However, I found the MPB touchpad worked so well I could see myself using it instead of a mouse. I then stopped in at the store and played with an iMac for a while. Same great feeling... only bigger. The only thing that bothered me was the tracking speed of the magic mouse. I set the speed to max, and it was still painfully slow. There are alternatives to that, though. Anyways, I couldn't pinpoint any one thing about it, but I just loved how the machine and OS worked. I've never had that happen with a pc. My "super pc" is very fast for the most part. It boots up very quickly and generally opens apps quickly, but it's so unpredictable (see some of my issues at the beginning of this thread). I've been checking everything out in detail and can't find anything I would miss in switching, except for QuickBooks Pro and my scanner. I have a Canan DR-2580c high speed document scanner that I love. I throw everything in it, push the button on it, and then find all the PDFs sitting in a folder. However, Canon isn't much for making OSX device drivers. This should probably be in a different thread, but if I ran Parallels or VMware Fusion, can I leave a virtual instance running that would recognize the usb scanner when I push the button on the scanner, or am I stuck with re-booting through bootcamp? It will be a bit of a pain to re-boot every time I want to scan a document. [/QUOTE]
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